II) Wood pellets for home heating can be considered environmentally friendly fuels? Heavy metals determination by inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) in their ashes and the health risk assessment for the operators
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- 作者：Santino Orecchioa ; santino.orecchio@unipa.it" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; Diana Amorelloa ; Salvatore Barrecab ; c
- 关键词：Metals ; Wood ; Pellet ; Combustion ; Stove
- 刊名：Microchemical Journal
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：July 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：127
- 期：Complete
- 页码：178-183
- 全文大小：373 K
文摘
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Use of wood pellet worldwide as fuel for stoves and boilers is increasing.
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The paper reports the first quantitative results on heavy metals in wood pellet ashes.
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The ashes produced from wood pellet may pose threat to the people and environment due to hazardous elements.
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We estimate the health risk posed by exposure to wood pellet ashes for operators.